Category Archives: DevOps

The Emergence of The 3 Towers: DevSecOps

I had the opportunity to attend AWS bootcamp in Sydney a couple of weeks ago. The session I chose to attend was entitled “Securing Cloud Workloads with DevOps Automation”. There were many interesting concepts discussed, all hinging around the new term ‘DevSecOps’. … Continue reading

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Google Cloud Dataproc and the 17 minute train challenge

My work commute My commute to and from work on the train is on average 17 minutes. It’s the usual uneventful affair, where the majority of people pass the time by surfing their mobile devices, catching a few Zs, or by reading a … Continue reading

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re:Invent 2015 Conference report: Welcome to the Starship Enterprise

Last week I attended the fourth re:Invent conference for Amazon Web Services in Las Vegas. During four days I got to hear some new announcements, gain insights into specific technologies and gauge the mood of the AWS ecosystem. Reflecting on … Continue reading

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License to Queue

A few months ago I joined an exciting project with fellow Shiner Graham Polley, who you might know from such hits as Put on your streaming shoes. This is a follow-up article, discussing the elegant way in which we solved a … Continue reading

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Getting New Relic and RDS to play nice

Anyone who’s ever had to support server infrastructure of any kind knows the value of having a comprehensive, automated monitoring solution in place. With this in mind, we have begun to roll out the New Relic platform to monitor all … Continue reading

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